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Pan-European resistance monitoring programmes encompassing food-borne bacteria and target pathogens of food-producing and companion animals
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Antimicrobial resistance is a concern both for animal and human health. Veterinary programmes monitoring resistance of animal and zoonotic pathogens are therefore essential. Various European countries have implemented national surveillance programmes, particularly for zoonotic and commensal bacteria, and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is compiling the data. However, harmonisation is identified as a weakness and an essential need in order to compare data across countries. Comparisons of resistance monitoring data among national programmes are hampered by differences between programmes, such as sampling and testing methodology, and different epidemiological cut-off values or clinical breakpoints. Moreover, only very few valid data are available regarding target pathogens both of farm and companion animals. The European Animal Health Study Centre (CEESA) attempts to fill these gaps. The resistance monitoring programmes of CEESA have been a collaboration of veterinary pharmaceutical companies for over a decade and include two different projects: the European Antimicrobial Susceptibility Surveillance in Animals (EASSA) programme, which collects food-borne bacteria at slaughter from healthy animals, and the pathogen programmes that collect first-intention target pathogens from acutely diseased animals. The latter comprises three subprogrammes: VetPath; MycoPath; and ComPath. All CEESA projects include uniform sample collection and bacterial identification to species leve…
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“The long-standing VetPath project, over two decades, described herein, is the only international antimicrobial susceptibility monitoring program for food-producing animals using standardized methods and centralized MIC determination (de Jong et al., 2013; de Jong et al., 2025).”
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de Jong, A., Temmerman, R., Rose, M., Simjee, S., El Garch, F., & on behalf of the VetPath Study Group (2026) · Frontiers in Microbiology · doi:10.3389/fmicb.2026.1745115 · Cited by 3
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- Authors
- de Jong, A., Thomas, V., Klein, U., Marion, H., Moyaert, H., Simjee, S., & Vallé, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Antwerp (BE)
- Corresponding author
- de Jong, A.
- Venue
- International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-05
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 403-409
- ISSN
- 0924-8579 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2076465729
- Cited by
- 73
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 6
- FWCI
- 5.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Microbiology (medical) › Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
- Keywords
- antimicrobial resistance, resistance monitoring, animal health monitoring, zoonotic pathogens, foodborne bacteria, companion animals, food-producing animals, clinical breakpoints, epidemiological cut-off values, Mycoplasma, food safety, antibiotic efficacy
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Animals, Domestic, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Bacteria, European Union, Food Microbiology, Humans, International Cooperation, Microbial Sensitivity Tests, Drug Resistance, Bacterial, Pets, Epidemiological Monitoring
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